.. arrangement."Bingo!PART 2Raymond means business. The office door is locked, phone diverted and the blind has been drawn. His ugly orange tie is sna...ed over the desk. The jacket's been unbuttoned at last and is flung over a nearby filing cabinet; his flabby, shirt-clad waist hangs over his belt. Leaning back in his big tilt chair, hands clasped behind his head, Raymond's trying — almost successfully - to look like he's done this a thousand times before."Take off your clothes, Lucinda — all of. Daddy must have thought that with me married, he could quit work and move somewhere warm for whatever time he had left."He kept it all from me, until the hospital called and said he was very sick and asking for me. For once, Cray didn't fight me. I called a travel agency and flew out the same afternoon. It was a big step for me, but nothing was going to keep me from seeing Daddy one more time."I was shocked when I saw him in the hospital bed. He was near death, and I think he was hanging on. Surely you wish to visit your family?”Shavala’s parents had asked her to come home for the winter since she hadn’t returned since spring, and that had only been a brief stop.“I suppose.”In truth, her parents—her father a painter and her mother a weaver—were still disappointed she hadn’t followed in their footsteps. The elder magic hadn’t given her much of a choice in the matter, but they didn’t see it that way, so the visits were always uncomfortable. It would be nice to see her older brother. My first words to speak? I felt him stiffen. ‘What?’, he asked with a stern voice. ‘Oh god’, I thought, ‘Oh God?’ His voice making me tremble with fear? Or was it desire? Or both? I couldn’t think clear anymore. I just wanted?Lying there in the mud, being held by only one wrist, I could do nothing but plead: ‘Please, Sir? Please, would you be so kind? Would you be so kind to let me serve you?’? I quickly lowered my head again, too scared to look up and perhaps see what I was too afraid of to.
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